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Why is saltatory conduction faster than continuous conduction?
How does spacing apart sodium and potassium channels allow the action potential to travel faster down the axon? This is the reason always cited for saltatory conduction and myelination, but my mental ...
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Connect the inner and outer space of cell with a wire, will there be electricity?
There is a potential difference, but ions can not go through wires, right? Though there is a electric field, but there is no electron source, I am thinking the answer is no, or will there be some ...
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Patch-Clamping Neurons Resources
Are there any lectures available on Patch-Clamping?
Were can I find a mathematical model of Patch-Clamp? (that can be easily implemented in matlab).
I have found some step-by-step protocols on ...
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Is “exhaustion” of the Hodgkin-Huxley membrane at constant stimulation a real phenomenon?
I was playing around with a simulation of the Hodgkin-Huxley model using their original parameters for the squid giant axon.
By applying a constant stimulation current to the model in resting state, ...
